The first day of the New Year is here. Skyward flight Media is forming considerable plans for 2025. With ideas being written up and multipart meetings on the horizon, a part of looking forward to the future is taking a look at the past. For Skyward, 2024 was a time of continuing our established way of operations while gradually increasing our reach.
Here are a few releases that exemplify some of the content we put out this year.
February 3rd, 2024
Our big hardware review of the year was for the Arrow handheld flight controller by Yawman LLC. After meeting the team and trying a prototype at Flight Sim Expo 2023, ongoing communication led to an early mass production unit being sent to Skyward Flight Media before the Arrow was released for public sale.
Though designed for mid to high fidelity flight simulators, the USB interface of this controller made it possible to remap its buttons and axes for any new or old game that would recognize it. This review stands as one of our most in-depth hardware reviews thus far.
June 22nd, 2024
The widespread use of artificial intelligence in our everyday lives is here. How it would be incorporated into flight Simulation was something I was unsure of. I half-expected its implementation to just fly aircraft on behalf of the Humans playing the simulator. Which would be, for the lack of a better term, "Cringe".
However, companies presenting at FSE 2024 offered their AI products as an enhancement to flight, rather than a replacement for the minutiae of aviation operations. With AI providing multi-language air traffic control, ground control, radio chatter and even flight instruction, it seems like the era of enhanced solo flight simulation is here.
February 11th, 2024
The first Skyward Flight Media original mission created for Digital Combat Simulator. This scenario is an example of how our in house mission editors now have high level skills, but it also represents a turning point in Skyward's content creation. With this mission's release, even more complex content has been planned, with development well underway.
August 7th, 2024
An important article this year, as we finally got a bit tired of the way explosives work in vanilla DCS and wanted to bring some attention to this issue. After all, how fun can bombing a target really be when a Humvee two feet from the 500lb bomb explosion comes out unharmed?
May 1st, 2024
Out of all the reviews written last year, the most important one was the Cayuse. This little bird that could is the most impressive mod released for DCS World this year, and one that not only left me speechless, but also revived my faith in proper mods being done for the only combat sim on the market.
April 27th, 2024
Speaking of the only modern combat sim in the market, we also shared our genuine opinions about the state of DCS World and its community and some of the drama that surrounded it in early 2024. The fact that a lot of what was said still rings true starting 2025 should be an indication that this article has aged like fine wine.
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